Folding bed.



H. BRANDT.

FOLDING BED.

APPLICATION man SEPT. la. 1912.

1,241,705. Patented 00u 2.1917.

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Inventor,

HENRIETTE BRANDT, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

' FOLDING BED.

.f i i Specification of Letters Patent.

"i Application filed September 18, 1912. Serial No. 721,105.

`which the following is a specification.

One of the objects of my invention is to produce a folding bed of inexpensive construction, which is without cracks inaccessible for inspection and cleaning, which may be fastened in part to the side wall of a room or in a recess and thereby rendered more secure, which may be folded with the bed made up, which will be comfortable to recline upon by reason of its elastic adaptation to the curves of the body and which may be suitably draped and screened when folded.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings which form a part of this application- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bed embodying my invention, in folded position.

Fig. 2 is a side View of the bed.

Fig. 3 is a detail showing how the woven wire bottom is secured.

Fig. 4 is a detail showing how the mattress is hooked in place.

Fig. 5 is a modified form of leg in which angle iron is used instead of round iron.

Thebed comprises a pair of rear legs 1 l or legs which are placed next to the walll when the bed is to be connected to the wall for support or folded against the wall. At their lower ends they have flanges 2 2 through which screws can be passed into the floor for securing. Braces 3 3 formed with eyes at their ends for encircling the legs extend back fromthe legs to the wall where flanges are formed through which screws can be passed irito the base board. If it is not desired to use the braces for connecting to the wall they can be turned about the round legs to a position under the bed. In order that the braces 3 may at all times be properly supported and rotated to and from an operative position I prefer to provide the legs 1 with collars or the like on which the ends of the braces 3 rest and which form bearings on which said braces may be swung in the are of a circle. The braces when disconnected from the wall are in this manner prevented from dropping downwardly on the legs 1 and are thus at all times maintained in a proper operative relation there with. A bed frame is formed on three sides of angle iron 4 mitered and bent at the corners and so placed that the interior angle faces inward and downward. The remaining side which will come next to the wall, and be the bottom side when the bed is folded, is of a wider piece of angle iron 5 and its interior angle faces inward and up ward so that the mattress can rest against it when the bed is folded. The bed frame is pivoted to the rear legs, the` axis of the pivots being within the area of the bed and parallel with and a short distance from the side of wider angle iron. It is immaterial whether the axis adjoins a longer or a shorter side and the bed in consequence will fold sidewise, as shown, or endwisc.

Front legs 6 G support the outermost edge of the bed frame and are secured by pivoted braces 7 7 and 8 8, the lengths and positions of the pivots being so adjusted that all these parts will fall down and fold against the frame when the frame is folded up. A woven spring wire bottom 9 is held in the frame. Each end of this wire fabric is lapped over a single iron bar 10 and secured thereto by wires 11 11 which are passed through the bar and both thicknesses of wire bottom and clenched. The securing wires are also hooked into holes in the horizontal webs of the portions of the angle iron forming thelshorter sides or ends of the bed.

In order to reduce the sag of the wire fabric and to localize the sag where it will add to the comfort in reclining upon the bed, a support is provided consisting of two longitudinal lines of tape 12 12 between the ends of the frame and joined midway by springs 13 13, and two cross tapes 14 14 joining the longitudinal tapes. These cross tapes are so placed that when a person is lying upon the bed one will cross under the small of the back and the other will cross under the knees. The portion of the wire fabric which supports the person is thus divided into three areas or spans which sag under the weight of the body so that when modified by an overlying mattress 15 the bed will conform to and evenly and comfortably support the body.

To relieve the weight which is heaviest at the start in folding up the bed, stiff tension springs 16 16 are hooked between the rear corners, of the bed frame and into screw eyes 17 17 which screw into the base board of the wall close to the floor. These Patented Oct. 2, 1917.

1 21 21 which are located within the area of the fabric 9.

the mattress to which they are sewed there` by supporting it within the frame and snugly against the Wire bottom when .the frame .is folded up. This construction of `fastening admits of readily connecting and disconnecting, as the hooks are held in posi-l tion bythe frame so that only the mattress has to; be handled and lifted to detach. The location of the points of fastening within the area of the mattresshas a further use in that it permits the sheets to be tucked under so that the bed can be made up without dis'- turbing the fastenings and when made up can be folded and left in other respects ready for use.

Along the edge of the uppermost folding side are holes 22 22 to which drapery can be attached for screening the bed when folded.

The hooks 2O being substantially rigid and being located at intervals along and beneath that edge ofthe wire fabric 9 which is at the free `edge of the bed when the latter is in an operative position form an approxi-y mately rigid support for the said edge of The said fabric in this manner is maintained against undue depression and free from unusual strains when for in* stance a person sits upon'tlie bed Vat the free edge thereof, as when arising in the morning. The said hooks, by passing through the wire fabric 9, in addition also serve to support the saine against sagging downwardly in the plane of its face when the bed is folded and thus prevent a distortion of said fabric if the Abed is permitted to remain in a folded position for any length of time. L

W'hat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

A `folding bed comprising vupright rear legs, a frame pivotally connected therewith and adapted to be moved to a horizontal operative position and to a vertical inopera-v tive position, foldable front legs for supporting said frame in its operative position, a woven wire fabric in said frame, means for attaching the opposite ends of said fabric to said frame, members rigidly secured to the free longitudinal edge of said frame atinterf vals and extending beneath the opposed longitudinal edge of said wire fabric whereby the latter is supported against undue depression under a downward strain, and

hooks forming part of said members and eX- tending through said wire fabric to support same against downward sagging in the vertical position of said frame, said hooksrbeing further arranged for detachableconnection with a mattress for suspending same.`

Signed by me at New York, N.y Y., this 16th dayof September, 1912.

f HENRIETTE BRANDT. Witnesses: Y

SAMUEL V. BALCH, HUGH H. SENIOR.

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